The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.