Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

This experiment in the lifespan of seeds will take a century before it is complete.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.