Places Diana Alsobrook Wants to Go

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Ancient Phoenician and Roman tombs carved into the rock overlook the Moroccan coastline.

The tomb of one of the greatest travelers in history.

Writers such as Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett frequented this Tangier bookstore.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.