This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.