Places erinbrown Wants to Go

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

The first and only cat cafe in Iceland

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

Houston’s oldest continuously-operating Tex-Mex restaurant has been a community hub since 1941.

This South-by-South-Asian restaurant serves up Indian-spiced Southern fried chicken and a Desi-style pastrami.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Originally brought to Texas by Czech settlers, these sweet and savory pastries are an essential local breakfast staple.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A Roman mosaic depicting a classical myth was only rediscovered after bombing during World War II.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

This sculpture garden creates a whimsical aura in an urban and wild environment.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

One of the world's last well-maintained airship hangars.

This Brazilian palace island was once the site of the last grand ball before revolution.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."