Places WendyC Wants to Go

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Henri Matisse's final masterpiece.

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

A beautiful 1920s tower filled with local hidden gems.

This Melbourne bank has unique Gothic-style architectural features and is one of the most majestic operating bank branches in the world.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

The world's first cageless zoo is working to save endangered Tasmanian devils.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.