A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

A local prank turned town icon.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.