Places Patti Swanson Wants to Go

The world's only known button museum.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.