Places venuslady87 Wants to Go

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

Where lovers tie birch branches into long-lived knots.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The famed literary character has a unique connection to this city.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

Children's author May Gibbs's beloved stories about the tiny, human-like "Gumnut Babies" are immortalized in bronze.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

A statue of the beloved storybook character stands in front of the building in which her creator was born.

The three colorful women depict characters from a beloved children's story.