Places tgibbs Wants to Go

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

An out of this world experience.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

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

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This museum explores the history of the city's public transportation. Its collection includes the world's oldest preserved electric trolley car.