This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

The last remaining tollhouse in Michigan built during the 19th-century plank road craze.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.