Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

This restored opera house is named after a soprano known for tragic romance, exile, and a truly uncomfortable wedding.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.