Places LouiseLabreche Wants to Go

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Locals rallied to save this beloved mural after someone mistakenly attempted to cover it.

It was meant to help transport wounded soldiers to a secret underground hospital.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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