This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.