The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

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

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.