Places MatthewSperling Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

He’s not from around here.

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Prank calls to this place, originally the "Tube Bar," inspired the creation of a Simpsons character.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.