This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.