Places marytreptow Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

This park harkens back to frontier life in Wisconsin.

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Built in 1933, this unique ballroom is nicknamed the "floating dance floor."

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.