Take in some Air Force history—and ogle some beautiful planes—at this little-known park near Myrtle Beach’s seashore.

Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Dedicated to the "World's Luckiest Fishing Village."

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This patch of old-growth forest is home to Canada's gnarliest tree.

A rescue facility that caters specifically to wolf-dog hybrids, and educates about these unique animals.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.