The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

New York's oldest magic store.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.