Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.