Places STG Wants to Go

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

The physical legacy of one man’s lifetime mission, following a near-fatal mine accident, to publicly proselytize for Christianity.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

An out of this world experience.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

An unexpected alley with light shows and nature views.