Places Kathie Fahey Wants to Go

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.