This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

This is not your typical jungle gym.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.