Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

An extended zoological collection that doubles as a time capsule.

These oversized fruit sculptures honor the contributions of the Windrush generation.

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

The other, lesser-known, Sistine Chapel, sits over 500km away from the Vatican City in an Italian port City.

The final resting place of the renowned, eccentric artist doesn’t even include his name.

A fully functional, commercial, miniature art gallery.

This medieval synagogue survived the Inquisition as a hospital and church.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

Collection of still-functioning printing presses from the 18th to 20th centuries.

An underground museum of monks, bones, and medieval ruins.

The world’s largest street art museum.

Once a thriving Greek port, now a windswept ruin lost to time.

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

One of Mexico City's seats of the Catholic faith, although not the majoritarian Latin Roman rite.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

A priceless work by the 17th-century Dutch master is on display in the parish church of a French village.

A monumental private palace behind an unassuming facade, with astonishing interiors including a rococo ballroom.

St. Peter’s, in Western Germany, has stood as a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture since 1181.

The smallest walk-in museum in the United States, this miniature museum preserves and displays a range of historic manuscripts.

Remnants of an architect's residence that displays his embrace of organic architecture.

An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

A bronze fountain celebrating a strange, seductive, long-breasted, motherly creature from regional folklore.

This large Roman bath complex offers a window into ancient life in the arid Central Anatolian steppe.