Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

Everything from miniature biblical scenes to life-sized statues are almond-based at this sweet and nutty gallery.

The largest collection of artifacts from the Olmec civilization, the mother culture of Mesoamerica.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

A small town celebrates its cash crop with a giant highway sculpture.

The much-loved protagonist of famed Argentinian comics can be found sitting on a park bench.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.