Places clocky Wants to Go

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.