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Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.