Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

An unmarked, overgrown path through dense vegetation leads to the largest ancient structure in Polynesia.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

"The country that ate itself."

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?