This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

A tiny traditional village keeps an ancient method of beekeeping alive.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.