Places Added by Allison Meier

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.