Places thegreatgarbo Wants to Go

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.