Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.