This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.