Places thelordwinter Wants to Go

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.