Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.