Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

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

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.