Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.