A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.