Places mikswockam Wants to Go

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

These hilariously laughing bronze figures lampoon empty promises while encouraging civic engagement.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Greenery covers the face of a gently-dripping waterfall deep in the mountains of central Sardinia.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The loneliest plant in the world resides at the Durban Botanic Gardens...mostly.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A wonderful world of rare fruits and flowering trees grows in a small botanical park in Bradenton.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin briefly ran their fledgling company from this Silicon Valley garage.

The model behind the iconic 3D test model.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.