Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.