Places Marian Bull Wants to Go

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

See the world's biggest spool of thread, along with the largest collection of sewing machines.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

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

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.