Places Extreme Road Trip Wants to Go

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.