Places doubleplusungood Wants to Go

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

A white oak with property rights.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.