Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, this yew may be Britain’s oldest.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

A colorful mural decorates one of the city's oldest animal shelters.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

An ancient well nestled at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, shrouded in Arthurian legend and revered for its purported healing waters.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

An elegant church is home to a remarkably detailed mosaic floor depicting the Garden of Eden.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.

Controversially restored in the 1970s, this giant 15th-century mosque is shrouded in legend.

Associated with one of Japan's most famous fairy tales, this temple is home to a statue purportedly brought from the undersea palace of the Dragon God.

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.

This giant 200-year-old ginkgo is one of the largest in the United States.

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).

Discover everything there is to know about Catalan giants and "Big-Heads."