A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.