Oaxaca, Mexico
Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art
An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.
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Oaxaca, Mexico
An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.
San Agustín Etla, Mexico
The former textile factory is now an oasis for the arts.
Denver, Colorado
A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Kyiv, Ukraine
An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.
Romulus, New York
Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.
Chisinau, Moldova
This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.
Brooklyn, New York
An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Asheville, North Carolina
A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Green River, Utah
A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.
Bronx, New York
Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.
New York, New York
A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.
Rome, Italy
Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Lviv, Ukraine
This cheeky restaurant has a serious devotion to lard sculptures.
New Orleans, Louisiana
After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.
Havana, Cuba
A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.