Places Cowshow Wants to Go

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

The first firefighters museum in southern Spain is ironically located in an old textile mill that burned down in 1985.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

An imposing statue of the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda stands in the middle of a traffic intersection.

A mosaic monument that commemorates the historical struggles of the people of North Macedonia.

The first woman to become a member of the parliament of Iceland.

The site of a legendary 14th-century battle and a controversial 20th-century speech.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

The mausoleum of New Zealand's controversial prime minister.

The last remaining Shaker community still practices a uniquely communal and utopian version of Christianity.

A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

Amazing collection of folly buildings in Cobham, Surrey.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

An outsider folly near Madrid.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.