Places summermaddux Wants to Go

This saucy statue once caused outrage among locals.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

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

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

This extremely naked God of Drunkards welcomes visitors to Kochi Station.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Ruins of a church in a peaceful location overlooking fields.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A small park inhabited by handmade water goblins.

A bizarre assault of surreal art hiding in bushes and huts on a hill.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A beautiful Victorian-era mausoleum, designed for a single occupant.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

Where a neoclassical sculptor rests at the heart of the museum devoted to him.

A shrine dedicated to a 10th-century samurai emperor, whose head is not buried on site (contrary to popular belief).

Guarding the city of Chiyoda is a bizarre insectile creature with a name no one can pronounce.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.