Places brinkmonkey Wants to Go

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

An early Korean refrigerator.

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The 5,000-year-old megalith is believed to be Scotland's tallest standing stone.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.