Places td007 Wants to Go

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.