Austin, Texas
Mueller SunFlowers
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Austin, Texas
HOPE Outdoor Gallery
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Austin, Texas
Toy Joy
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Austin, Texas
Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
DIY collection of eclectic holdings.
Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Uncommon Objects
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
Cathedral of Junk
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Washington, D.C.
Kilroy Was Here
There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.
Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt Island
The national park was once a plantation estate.
Washington, D.C.
The Lockkeeper's House
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
Washington, D.C.
Barbie Pond on Q Street
A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
Saint John's Abbey Church
A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.
Blue Earth, Minnesota
Jolly Green Giant Statue
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Baltimore, Maryland
The American Visionary Art Museum
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
Haines Shoe House
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Sparta, Wisconsin
FAST Fiberglass Mold Graveyard
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Angle Inlet, Minnesota
Northwest Angle
America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Dr. Gloom's Crypt of Curiosities
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Washington, D.C.
The Portrait Monument
Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.
Washington, D.C.
East Potomac Park Mini Golf
The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.
Waco, Texas
Dr Pepper Museum
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Photios National Greek Orthodox Shrine
Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.
