This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

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

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.