Places escapechaos Wants to Go

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

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

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.