Places jddarcy Wants to Go

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A miniature of a lighthouse acts as a beacon for what transpires inside this location.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This unusual sculpture depicts how coins were made when minting was done by hand.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.