Places suelatida Wants to Go

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

In this quiet park a rendition of a classic painting graces the outside of a charming restroom.

Dinosaurs, magic, and wonder are hidden amid the forests of Allaire State Park.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.