Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

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

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.