Places Erin Johnson Wants to Go

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

This wonderful rock formation constitutes the first geopark in Uruguay.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.