The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.