Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.