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A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

A small Denmark town displays a pair of titanic jaw bones as their community symbol.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

The greatest amusement park in the world is wall-to-wall farting dogs, puking rats, and cows with exposed breasts for the whole family.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.