Places mzpete3 Wants to Go

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The highest mountain in Hokkaido was the setting for one of Japan’s strangest unsolved mysteries.

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This 820-foot-high spiral ramp is a walkway to the sky.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.