Places emmypimms Wants to Go

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.