Places Dan Buck Wants to Go

Jog (or stroll) down an esplanade of fluctuating and whimsical sculpture works.

One of the 20th century’s most famous businessmen is buried in Houston’s most prestigious cemetery.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Definitely not a clown bar.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.