Places danielrolnik Wants to Go

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

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

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

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

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

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

An urban laboratory.