Places Saint Roughneck Wants to Go

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This massive piece of artwork weighs more than 250 tons, and was designed as a tribute to the first president of the United Arab Emirates.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

Giant quails play and greet visitors at a suburban park.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.