Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

This unique blend of Japanese and Western architecture provides a glimpse into the lives of the Japanese elites who once ruled Taiwan.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

They say the internet is forever but just in case, the shiba inu behind an iconic meme has been immortalized in bronze.

This 15-foot-tall sculpture stands vigil at the back entrance to the largest public park in western Massachusetts.

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.

A time capsule from 1934 Rhodesia, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

The design of this seemingly translucent two-story tower in northwest Cambridge was inspired by an optical illusion.

Engravings of penises and vaginas on a boulder in the Philippines dates local tribal history back to the Bronze Age.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

On a tiny island in northwestern Norway, one of the country's few remaining original stave churches.

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

The first museum in Europe dedicated to the art of origami.

An unassuming set of tiles next to a mailbox mark the former location of one of the most famous springs in the city.

These beautiful castle ruins are nestled in the Polish countryside.

A sculpture of a partly-buried Roman helmet commemorates a North Wales town’s connection with its Roman past.

The former home and studio of Belgian artist Antoine Wiertz is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.