Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.