Places samanthafran Wants to Go

Inside the simple black-and-white exterior of Église Sainte-Cécile hides a pastel wonderland.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

A sculpture of the largest owl in Australia.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

This former power station is now a museum dedicated to the region's coal-producing history.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.