A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

The coldest city in the world.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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