Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.