Places Rebecca Schandel Wants to Go

A medley of objects that represent Argentine culture, from cars to toys.

Because there's no place like home.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Feast on buckets of garlicky snails.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A 700-year-old drinking fountain turned charity for the less fortunate of Zurich.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.