The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

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

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

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

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.