Places captnsusan Wants to Go

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.