This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.