Places ouroborosasunder Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Museum houses an impressive display of the origin and artistry from the now-quaint invention's history.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

This is one of the very few intact windmills built by the Knights of St. John in the island nation of Malta.

For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

This church is named for one of the most dramatic tales in the early Christian church.

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

A lake island of richly decorated monasteries, where a fugitive ruler met his end

This 300-year-old teahouse is the birthplace of a Japanese springtime staple

Royal milk tea was invented here at the Far Eastern capital of Sir Thomas Lipton’s tea empire

The oldest bakkwa shop in Singapore is especially beloved during the Lunar New Year festivities.

Singapore's Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West is a social hotspot for songbirds and their humans.