Places Kanashii Wants to Go

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

The final resting spot of the Colorado Transportation Department's beloved unofficial mascot.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.