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The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A sacred collection of indigenous rock art.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

The longest covered bridge in Delaware.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

A boardwalk winds above this beautiful bog full of wildlife and a rare type of turtle.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.