The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

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

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

This active fish farm has opened and expanded its lands to become a multi-faceted tourist attraction.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.