Places katemonkey Wants to Go

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

The museum houses one of the world's largest shoe collections, boasting over 12,000 pairs.

These carved, weathered stones once gave mail carriers and pub goers a leg up.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.