Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A small pack of an ancient, hairless breed of dog once believed to guide souls through the underworld lives on its grounds.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

The United Kingdom's smallest working cathedral also serves as a quaint bed and breakfast.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.