Places squiddlywinks Wants to Go

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.