Places Lily Landes Wants to Go

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.