These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A chessmaster's dream destination.