Places poppyoana Wants to Go

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

The remains of this misplaced church were moved here stone by stone.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Weighing nearly seven tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Dozens of musicians have planted trees in this Danish park, and donated songs to go with them.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.