Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

Home to an apple tree that can produce 25 different varieties of fruit.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.