Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.