This castle was once considered as an option for the Royal Family's alternate residence, but you may know it better from the 'X-Men' movie.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.