Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

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

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.