Places Mellzah Wants to Go

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Orcas on display and in the water.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.