The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.