Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.