Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.