Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.

This Liberian resort offers comfort, ecofriendly hospitality, and a mission of sustainability.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

These sailing ship-shaped chandeliers are believed to have been a gift inspired by faith.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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

This statue was a gift to commemorate the Thai monarch's first visit to a foreign land.