Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"