Places jitkapilar Wants to Go

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Many miles south of Loch Ness, a similarly-named sea monster stands at the center of a roundabout.

A statue commemorating the island's tradition of dancing dwarves in Napoleon hats.

Ancient, mysterious stone altars are hidden among wild woods in central Italy.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Less so a museum and more a library for hardcore Japanophiles.