Places flblom Wants to Go

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

Extensive Orthodox icon collection in Andorra.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

A modernist church in an ancient village.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.