San Francisco, California
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A library and museum dedicated to typography.
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San Francisco, California
A library and museum dedicated to typography.
Copenhagen, Denmark
An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.
Makarau, New Zealand
A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.
Havana, Cuba
A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.
Sea Ranch, California
This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.
Singapore
Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.
Chiefland, Florida
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.
Kilauea, Hawaii
A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.
Koloa, Hawaii
A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.
Hilo, Hawaii
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.
Los Angeles, California
Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.
Los Angeles, California
An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.
Los Angeles, California
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
Los Angeles, California
The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.
Los Angeles, California
Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.
Los Angeles, California
The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.
Los Angeles, California
Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.