Places relizh Wants to Go

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

It’s a bug’s life at this Korean eco-event park, built to host an annual butterfly festival.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.