A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Will Geer's outdoor theater started as a mountain retreat for actors, musicians, and other artists who were blacklisted during the Red Scare.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

A local prank turned town icon.

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The middle finger of modernity.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.