Places mrowestmiddle Wants to Go

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

A hidden plaque is the only reminder of the lost palace where two storied English kings were born.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.