This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.