Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.