This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Every dish at this restaurant claims to have a health benefit.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Atop the former site of a historic bakery sit two stone tributes to Verona's contribution to traditional Italian baking.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.