Places Crystal Hunkin Wants to Go

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The last Americana on Route 66.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

The world's biggest pet store.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.