Places canlarue Wants to Go

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The world's longest known cave system.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.