Places escapementality Wants to Go

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

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

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.