Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.