Places BeKa211 Wants to Go

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

A curious museum of old video game consoles hidden in the back of a store.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

This is the house that spite built.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.