A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

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