Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

The world's longest known cave system.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.