A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.