Places isabelleryann Wants to Go

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Definitely not a clown bar.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.