A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

The final resting place of one of the most important figures in the world of tea.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.