An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

A building made mostly of cast iron features a 1:45 scale lego model of its self.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

This is one really big nut.