Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.