Places designerbren Wants to Go

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.