Places Kelly Catalfamo Wants to Go

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

A state-of-the-art medical facility dedicated to treating beloved birds of prey.

For more than 70 years, this small shop has been a go-to for Kolkata's fountain pen connoisseurs and collectors.

Cut into a sheer cliff face, these stairs are the only way to reach a secluded Scottish harbor.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Cloistered comestibles are served with style at this French Orthodox monastery.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.