Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

These colonial murals are a fascinating hybrid of Spanish and Indigenous aesthetics.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."