Places readayy Wants to Go

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.