A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

The whole world in one water tank.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.