Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.