Places adriennedechief Wants to Go

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

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

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

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

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

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

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A small village in two different countries.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.