This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.