Places Saint Roughneck Wants to Go

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

Dioramas retell the obscure local legends and ghost stories of Sharjah, from a living palm tree to a headless camel.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The world's only known button museum.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

No one knows the story behind the mysterious feline perched on this rooftop.

They say the internet is forever but just in case, the shiba inu behind an iconic meme has been immortalized in bronze.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.