The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.