New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Orleans Train Garden
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.
Szymbark, Poland
Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.
Shanghai, China
This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.
Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.
Santa Monica, California
Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.
Théoule-sur-Mer, France
One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.
Columbus, Ohio
Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Ithaca, New York
The library of every book lover's dreams.
Crossville, Tennessee
This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Hudson, New Hampshire
A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.
Hartford, Connecticut
Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Glover, Vermont
This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.
Glover, Vermont
Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.
Montpelier, Vermont
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
Staten Island, New York
A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.