Places WhimsyCat03 Wants to Go

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

This mansion was made famous by its colorful cast of owners and location along the Sante Fe Trail.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

"All Mountains - All The Time."

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.