Places mj48155 Wants to Go

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This is one really big nut.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.