Places oriana leckert Wants to Go

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

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

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.