Places peapodpr Wants to Go

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.