Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

The world's largest gathering of flatbed coupes can be found annually at this rural festival in New South Wales.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.