Places tiki801 Wants to Go

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

A seven-foot-tall cast concrete Native American Chief stands on the south railing of the historic Commerce Street Bridge, commissioned in 1914.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

A public art installation featuring clawfoot bathtubs on stilts sparks admiration and controversy from locals.