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

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

See six states, pickled freaks, rocks, and antiques.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The magic's in the hole!

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.