A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An underwater city for the dead.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."