Places delstrat Wants to Go

A centuries-old quest to create artificial life is alive and well in the French town of Limoux.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

Six miles off the coast of Key West, a former military transport ship is now one of the largest artificial reefs in the world.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

This natural sandstone bridge hasn't been seen since the 1960s when Lake Powell covered it—until now.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.