A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.