Places angellj1976 Wants to Go

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.