This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

One of Philadelphia's largest murals resides hidden under this bridge.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.