In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

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Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

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

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Oldest building in California still in use.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.