Places jillsandrew Wants to Go

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Greenland's first shopping mall also hosts the country's government.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

This may be one of the most valuable Morris & Co. stained glass windows in Australia.

The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.