The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.