An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

This drive-by, rotating mini-gallery is nestled in the suburbs of Colorado.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.