Places microminimalist Wants to Go

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

Not for the faint of heart, this long pedestrian bridge rewards those who brave the wobbly walk with a beautiful view.

When North America was covered in ice, this was an oasis in the frozen desert.

Ride aboard a centuries-year-old steam engine and explore dozens of trains parts, including an unusual "comboose."

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.