Places Sumater Wants to Go

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Constructed from recycled wrought iron railroad tracks, it's been described as the most beautiful seaside pier in England.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

There are millions of temples in India, but only one prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu creator god.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A quirky collection flush with information on commode culture from ancient times to modern day.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.