Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.