Places jessicacripps Wants to Go

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.