This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

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

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.