A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The magic's in the hole!

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

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

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.