Places elfandhobbit Wants to Go

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The middle finger of modernity.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.