Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

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

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.