Places elaineoc Wants to Go

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

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

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.