Places East Into the Haze Wants to Go

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.