This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A collection of art crafted from various hardware tools.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.