A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The world's only statue dedicated to the greatest Great Dane in comic strip history.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

A memorial to the United States's first wildlife refuge warden.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.