Places samfsm Wants to Go

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An unusual, funny and fantastic open air museum.

View one man's eccentric collection of nearly 5,000 corkscrews, then sip some Chablis.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

Perfume museum and library.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.