Places gdm584 Wants to Go

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A cozy cafe tells the remarkable story of how one man started with a little red paperclip and wound up with an entire house.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.

This unique sculptural clock transforms into a periscope every hour.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.