Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

A statue of traditional Kazakh dancers adds some beauty to this Soviet-era mining city.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

More than 100 colorful residents stand post in this seaside Australian city.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.