This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.