This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

These fossilized remains of an ancient saber-toothed cat inspired the mascot of Nashville's NHL team.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.