A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.