Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This unassuming oasis elevated just above the busy streets of Jerusalem offers one of the best views of the Old City.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

The 18th-century church's stained-glass windows tell the story of the Haudenosaunee people.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."