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Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

During the dry season, this white-sand beach hosts thousands of breeding butterflies.

The forgotten remnants of a land-to-sea cable car that was once unique in the world.

A family recipe is just one of several touches that make this Hebrew headstone special.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.