Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.