Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This quaint museum taps into the sweet history of the maple syrup industry.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.