Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

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

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

A billionaire heiress' menagerie of animals were lovingly laid to rest on the grounds of her former estate.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.