Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.