Places ssinrsvl Wants to Go

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.