The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.