This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

The middle finger of modernity.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Its collection highlights the monumental tasks undertaken to map Queensland.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.