Places hunsicker Wants to Go

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

At this studio, musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on Puerto Rico's musical traditions.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Dunk your churros in rich hot chocolate on the city’s old “Chocolate Street.”

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

The former home of a Portuguese poet, artist, and collector is packed to the brim with art.