Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.