This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.