Places teddrake Wants to Go

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.