Places dcowan Wants to Go

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.