Places oldarchitecture Wants to Go

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A giant gleaming memorial named for a coal miner who gave his life to the pits.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

This huge industrial sculpture looks like a UFO and a factory had a baby.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.