Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.