Places graceafiles Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

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

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This hands-on museum houses roughly 80 vintage pinball machines and arcade games.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.