Places Edited by breaingram

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.