A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.