Places tealeaves Wants to Go

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.