Places GingerbreadKitten Wants to Go

A family-run botanical garden with tropical plants, artsy sculptures, and eccentric buildings.

A gathering of green robots at the Googleplex.

Though they look like Hobbit houses, these semi-underground stone structures were built for winemaking.

The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

This water-powered cliffside railway is one of the steepest funiculars in the world.

This small chapel built into rock is the oldest place of worship in Luxembourg.

A wooden statue of a mermaid commemorates one fisherman's generosity.

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

The former "holiday home" for monks at the Durham Cathedral.

Many of the cottages and houses of this tiny village are adorned with a local lord's collection of saintly statues.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

In the middle of a sleepy Paraguayan village, a more than 20-meter-tall medieval castle protrudes into the air.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

The remains of one of Wales’ great medieval buildings, with a pub in the cellar.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

Made to improve road safety, these policemen-like figurines in Miyakojima island have earned an enthusiastic fanbase.

From Carthage's Hannibal to riders of the Tour de France, many have crossed this scenic route through the Alps.

A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.