Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

A dilapidated space station with overtones of 'Alien' and 'Bladerunner' featuring a multiplayer games galore.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A small museum filled with unique fossil finds, including one of the oldest specimens of ground sloths found in Colombia.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

Considered "the most original, complete, and unimproved" circles in Aberdeenshire.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

This statue of Buddha has a distinctive hairstyle meant to represent an unfathomably long period of meditation.

These bamboo and rope bridges cross the Nam Khan River for six months every year.

An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

Emerging from the sidewalk, this sculpture of a whale commemorates the importance of baleen in traditional Japanese puppetry.

A sad reminder of the World War II bombing stands largely unnoticed on a street corner.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.