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Superkilen // Copenhagen, Denmark
This work-in-progress urban park (pictured) has color-coded zones outfitted with items from around the world—think Dutch bike racks, Polish manhole covers and an octopus-shaped sculptural jungle gym from Japan. (Get here via CPH.)
5Pointz // New York, New York
5Pointz is graffiti’s mecca, an outdoor exhibition space in Long Island City where the kings and queens of aerosol create legal masterpieces on an old factory-turned-art studio building. (Get here via NYC.)
Photo courtesy of Wonderful Copenhagen
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Hakone Open-Air Museum // Hakone, Japan
In a gorgeous mountain setting two hours southwest of Tokyo sits the Hakone Open-Air Museum, home to 120 works by the likes of Picasso and Henry Moore. (Get here via NRT.)
Photo courtesy of Japan National Tourism Organization
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Parc Güell // Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí’s hilltop park was completed in 1922 and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site with colorful mosaics, jaw-dropping views of the city and sculptural fountains. (Get here via BCN.)
Photo courtesy Turisme de Barcelona/J. Trullàs
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Getty Center // Los Angeles, California
No disrespect to the sprawling Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA, but we prefer the edgier park at the Getty Center (pictured). (Get here via LAX.)
El Jardín de los Poetas at Bosques de Palermo // Buenos Aires, Argentina
Come for the verdant, well-manicured grounds, stay for the busts of Shakespeare, Dante and other wordsmiths that dot the landscape. (Get here via EZE.)
Photo courtesy of the Getty Center
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park // Wakefield, England
Situated on 500 acres of rolling countryside an hour east of Manchester, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is one of our favorite al fresco art spaces in the world, seamlessly blending forward-thinking 3-D works (see the site-specific works of Andy Goldsworthy) with the natural landscape. (Get here via MAN.)
Photo courtesy YSP, © Jonty Wilde
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Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden // Tel Aviv, Israel
Outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art sits an impressive collection of sculptures by Israeli artists such as Yitzhak Danziger. (Get here via TLV.)
Photo courtesy of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art