Places tealeaves Wants to Go

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

The world’s largest street art museum.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A fantastical display of Croatian folklore, mythology, and myths.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A signal indicates the entrance to this alley, rumored to be a meeting place for witches.

Seek out ‘The Devil’s Court’ in this concert venue located in a former monastery run by an order of Teutonic knights.

Since 1999, this bakery has been turning out the dreamiest tortes in the Slovenian capital.

Look up as you explore Baku’s old town to find a monument to the local feline population.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.