The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

These boots are made for selfies.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.