Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

A bronze statue to commemorate an Auckland library's beloved feline resident.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

A cultural center dedicated to the preservation of the Yiddish language and culture with over a million volumes.

The Museum of the Forum of Caesar Augusta showcases the city's ancient Roman sewage system.

An art gallery dedicated to art works by coal miners which depict work in the mines and life in the former British mining communities.

This collection is the largest in the world dedicated to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The legacy of the Ohio-founded Fostoria Glass Company lives on in West Virginia.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

This sculpture is an homage to one of the most important Jewish women in medieval England.

In the former treasury of a popular temple, a rare sculptural depiction of Kannon’s diverse avatars.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

This sculpture made up of 22 bulbous bronze figures reminds locals of massive Weeble Woobles.

Since 1985, this Victorian home has operated as a museum filled top to bottom with American-made glassware.

Some of the most enduring novels in English literature were written within the walls of this Georgian-era building.

This bilingual museum explores the more than 300 years of vaquero history.

The home of two of Scotland's most important artists has been reassembled in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.