Places smj99 Wants to Go

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.