The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

The last timber and iron Chinese temple in Australia.

The name for this waterfall was derived from the Aboriginal word used to describe a rainforest vine.