A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.