Places Sumater Wants to Go

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.