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These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.