The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.