Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

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

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.