Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

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

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.