Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.