Places Toriaroscuro Wants to Go

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.