Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.