The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.