This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."