Places MikeInSanFrancisco Wants to Go

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A student driver's nightmare.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.