A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.