Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.