Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.