This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.