Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

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

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

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

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

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This trail follows unique stone railroad tracks and a historic waterway to the south coast of Devon.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

Balanced rock sculptures pay tribute to a murdered conservationist and his pioneer wife.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.