A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.