Places Rogier Wants to Go

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

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

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.