Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.