A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

What better place to take a seat?

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.