Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Beside a lonely road winding into the hills overlooking Altadena, sits a portal that urges callers to embrace humanity‘s innermost expression: Goodbye

A self-proclaimed infidel who had no hope of heaven nor fear of hell, Towell was free of superstition.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

This gray utility box is not full of wires; it is a tiny, operational theater hiding on a Downtown Los Angeles sidewalk.

Lego blocks now patch Rouen's WWII scars.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A 110-foot concrete dinosaur once sold fossil fuel from its belly.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.