When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.