The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

This small train ride offers stellar views of the Grand Garden Palace.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.