Places Michelle D Wants to Go

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

A mysterious concrete hand reaches out from between the stones of Uniwersytecki bridge.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.