Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

Housed in a stunning Victorian building, this museum has the largest exhibition of knives, blades, penknives, and scissors in Spain.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

A spirited shopping experience.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

A 19th-century Neoclassical building now housing a Hindu temple represents modern-day Glasgow at its most multicultural.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

Dedicated to the man who created the first radio wave communication system.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.