Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

The former home of Thomson Francis Mason, the mayor of Alexandria from 1827-1830.

Inside the cloister of the Temple of San Juan Bautista is a ceiling decorated with gold Baroque illustrations.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A small and somewhat hidden memorial to 68 local veterans of the Vietnam War.

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

From battleships to Roman vessels, this museum explores the depths of shipwrecks in the region.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.