Places summermaddux Wants to Go

What better place to take a seat?

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The unlikely Art Deco shrine to marbrite, a vanished glass.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

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

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Celebrating the cultural heritage of Kansas’s premier cowtown.