Places Handsome Dan Wants to Go

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.