Places nicolefrancis Wants to Go

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.