This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.