Places exvine Wants to Go

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.