You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.