Places tyler Wants to Go

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

These old World War II fortifications have been transformed into an unusual equine attraction.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.