A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.