Places Clur Wants to Go

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

The largest privately owned statue of Buddha in Japan, built by a total amateur, with an unconventional look.

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.

Also known as the Temple of Poseidon, this is one of the best-preserved Greek temples in the world.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

Numerous stone coffins from different centuries, lined up in a sixth century basilica.

Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

One of the most important Celtic-Roman archaeological sites in Spain.

Built in a perfect square, this archaeological site is one of the largest and best preserved ancient fortifications in India.

An 11th-century Byzantine church with medieval Serbian history and spectacular views.

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

This larger-than-life golden statue pays tribute to this town's old and new trades.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

Would you dare to dangle from a great height in a wooden basket?

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

Death hangs in the air here, where a 17th-century gibbet has been erected on a Neolithic tomb.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.

Its look is severe, but its location, isolated on a hill in the middle of the countryside, is particularly scenic.