These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A unique work of art that was created without permission.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.