Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.