Places Michelle Cassidy Wants to Go

Gas station bathrooms adorned with one of the world’s most infamous typefaces, with quotes ranging from lewd to profound.

This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Feast on buckets of garlicky snails.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

According to Japanese mythology, the first rice paddy in history was created here many aeons ago.

Home to one man's collection detailing the history of photography.

A posthumous honor at the iconic game show host's former high school.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.