Places focusedtraveler Wants to Go

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A hidden and beautiful waterfall in middle of one of the biggest urban forests of the world.

This sculpture garden creates a whimsical aura in an urban and wild environment.

A trio of waterfalls inside the world’s largest urban forest.

One of the world's last well-maintained airship hangars.

Known as the "Finger of God," a dramatic rock formation resembles a divine hand extending towards the heavens.

This Brazilian palace island was once the site of the last grand ball before revolution.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A nearly lost tribute to an 11-year-old boy killed during a World War I homecoming parade.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.