Places Meg Neal Wants to Go

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

An incredible little museum of interior design full of artifacts collected from around the world.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.