Places marrrta Wants to Go

The author of Alice in Wonderland spent his final years at this whimsical Victorian home.

The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A charming tour of the umbrella, tin-can, and drinking-straw capital of the world.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A tiny metropolis resides inside this student housing complex.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.