Places beckerbri Wants to Go

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.