A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

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

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

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

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

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.