Places houseofballs Wants to Go

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

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Explore the History & Technology of Electronic Communication

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.