One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

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

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

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.