Places Gary Phillips Wants to Go

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A lifetime collection of thousands of automobile and vintage gas station items at no charge to view.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.