Places Mishel Wants to Go

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Outsider Art Community.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.