Places ElisePoulain Wants to Go

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

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

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.