A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Rumors persist that a bottle of whiskey is sealed within this Demijohn-shaped adornment.

According to local history, this cast-iron canine was nearly melted down for bullets during the Civil War.

Historic barracks utilized during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.