Places k8bliz Wants to Go

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.