This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.