Places aquaphile Wants to Go

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The home of two of Scotland's most important artists has been reassembled in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.