Places crnissen Wants to Go

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.