Places Gillian Wants to Go

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

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

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

This is one really big nut.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.