Places mjh Wants to Go

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.