Places villageidiotkari Wants to Go

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

The secluded resting place of a local historical figure who perished during the sinking of the Titanic.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.