This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

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

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This bridge over the River Cuale leads to a neighborhood that was once an escape for Hollywood's elite.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.