A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.