Places corinnapalmi Wants to Go

Sweden's largest optical telescope sits on a rooftop in Stockholm.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

A vast necropolis where you'll find the elaborate mausoleums of Argentinian tango stars.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

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

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.