Home of the "true" equator.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

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

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

More than 150 snowmobiles fill this Michigan museum.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

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