Places rosieL Wants to Go

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

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

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

In Texas, a replica Irish castle is home to a charismatic pack of llamas.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

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

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.