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These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

Home of the Daffodil Festival, Castle Craig, and a ghostly hound.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Explore the world's largest collection of locks, keys, handcuffs, and ornate hardware, and crack the code on an antique-filled escape room.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

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

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An assortment of armored tanks and Howitzer cannons in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.

With more than 2,000 pieces, this is world's largest collection of artwork inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper.'