Places peasofwhimsy Wants to Go

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Mine your own precious stones.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.