Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

New York's oldest magic store.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.