Places Phleygas Wants to Go

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

A so-called Singapore junk store that is closer to a historical restoration center.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

"Would you like your sangria in an IV bag, or straight-up?"

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

According to fictional Kcymaerxthaereal history, a powerful woman with a voice whose beauty could not be concealed found solace at this site at the Majestic Hotel in Singapore.

Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.