The Colony, Texas
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Mexico City, Mexico
Soumaya Museum
66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.
Stockholm, Sweden
Codex Gigas (The Devil's Bible)
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Cincinnati, Ohio
The Cincinnati Mushroom House
What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?
Ruthin, Wales
Pool Park Asylum
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.
Safford, Arizona
Large Binocular Telescope
One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.
Schipkau, Germany
Bagger 258: The "Blue Wonder"
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Höganäs, Sweden
Nimis in Ladonia
Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.
Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
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San Francisco, California
Vaillancourt Fountain
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
Estella, Spain
Park of the Sleepless (El Parque de los Desvelados)
A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.
Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France
Serpent D'Océan
An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
Douaumont Ossuary
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Manětín, Czechia
Kostel Svatého Jiří Ghost Church
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Permanently Closed
Evansville, Indiana
The Nest Houses of Patrick Dougherty
Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.
Rome, Italy
Ospedale delle Bambole (Doll Hospital)
A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.
Dolní Morava, Czechia
Dolní Morava Sky Walk
The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.
Montreal, Québec
Habitat 67
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Khlong Mai, Thailand
Wat Samphran Temple
An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.
Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg Thingstatte
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Kayaköy, Turkey
Abandoned Village of Kayakoy
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Chongqing, China
Fengdu Ghost City
The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.
Sant'Agata Dé Goti, Italy
Sant'Agata de' Goti
This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.
Stannington, England
Abandoned St. Mary's Asylum
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
