Places darrelmw Wants to Go

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.