These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.