Places queensissy Wants to Go

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Nestled in the woods lies this land art project: a hybrid between park, maze and natural monument.

This strange portrait of six ladies with chicken bodies commemorates a count's dirty habits.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.