It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

Small-town museum dedicated to outer space ... and bicycles.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

A science teacher's dream.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.