The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A local shop filled with handcrafted art and funky home furnishings, vintage, and antiques.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

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

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.