Places EdHinDC Wants to Go

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

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

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

New York's oldest magic store.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A licentious look into Singapore's past, full of disorderly bric-a-brac and disreputable characters.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.