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This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Trek up to an abandoned fire lookout from the 1930s for an unimpeded view.

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A science teacher's dream.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

The trees in this small meadow grew from seeds that orbited the Earth.

This former Indiana quarry has been transformed into a park and SCUBA site where divers can explore the drowned mining equipment.