Places badtinkah Wants to Go

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Neolithic burial chambers hidden beside a village school.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.