Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.