Places elainemellis Wants to Go

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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