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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.