I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

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