Places Edited by Julius Spada

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.