Places paulinedowell Wants to Go

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.