A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Orcas on display and in the water.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.