This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Victoriana on Orange Grove Avenue.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.