Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

This neo-Gothic monastery offers a rare chance to witness the unique maned wolf right up close.

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.