Places pazzawinyan Wants to Go

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.