Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The Okefenokee Swamp houses this "incredibobble" tribute to the creator of America’s favorite cartoon possum.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

An old-fashioned school with interesting grounds and deep history, including the original Mito Castle gate.

A lone torii arch stands on a coastal rock where a deity is said to have landed.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

The first military newspaper in U.S. history was printed in Bloomfield, Missouri.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.