Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.