Places flblom Wants to Go

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This art shopping center still boasts pieces of its past as a textile factory.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

An old curiosity shop holds on to a centuries-old tradition of manually-distilled rose water.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.