Places critty Wants to Go

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A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.