Places natxosoler Wants to Go

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Tiny Spanish beach covered in sea glass.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

An allegorical statue of a giant pregnant woman representing justice and truth.

This statue standing near Sweden's southernmost point was based on the grandmother of a modern movie star.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.