Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.