Places tallackel Wants to Go

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

The narrowest street in Paris.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

This historic aviation building is now a museum owned and operated by Disney.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.