This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.