Places parmenides1 Wants to Go

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

New York's oldest magic store.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."