One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

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

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.