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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.