Places ejbrown Wants to Go

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

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

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

The iconic egg tart gets an upgrade with a laminated sourdough crust.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

These pillars at the main entrance of this church are actually a hidden musical instrument.

For more than half a millennia, this automaton has rung an hourly bell.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Once the center of power for the region's various factories.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.