White Post, Virginia
Dinosaurland
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Longyearbyen, Norway
In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.
Moquah, Wisconsin
This no-frills bar in rural Wisconsin has become a haven for thirsty travelers.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.
Longyearbyen, Norway
The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.
Savannah, Georgia
An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.
Antarctica
The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.
Nikko, Japan
This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.
Neillsville, Wisconsin
This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Urbana, Illinois
The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.
Annapolis, Maryland
A memorial to an ill-fated Arctic expedition pursued by the U.S. Navy.
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
This massive 286,200-tile mosaic was the largest mural of its kind in the United States and is an early example of computer-generated art.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.
Tønsvik, Norway
At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.
Antarctica
These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.
King George Island, Antarctica
One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
Phillips, Wisconsin
An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.
Ridgedale, Missouri
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.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.