Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This spooky road cut through a mound of ancient coral might be haunted by a witch.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.