I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.