A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

The world's largest rotating world.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.