Places badtinkah Wants to Go

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

The rusted creatures wait to be discovered in Prague's botanical garden.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.