Places pennylemonade Wants to Go

The middle finger of modernity.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The magic's in the hole!

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.