Places marykate Wants to Go

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

One of the last designs from architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.