A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The last of its kind in the country.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.