Places doubleplusungood Wants to Go

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.