Places netochka Wants to Go

A marble cornerstone marks the location of what could have been a presidential palace.

A collection of whimsical metal sculptures scattered along a forest path.

Larger-than-life sculptures of the world’s most famous cat mark the birthplace of creator Jim Davis.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

São Paulo's oldest magic shop has been hiding in plain sight for nearly four decades.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

This necropolis is home to eclectic funerary art and is the final resting place for much of the city's nobility.

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.