Places Julie Wants to Go

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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