Places downwardspiral Wants to Go

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

This monument pays tribute to the city’s contribution to basketball history.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Known by nicknames like the "Jersey Jumper" and the "Daring Yankee," Patch was the first famous daredevil in the United States.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.