The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.