Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The smallest country in the world.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.