This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Always a new use for this old building.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

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

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

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

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.