From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Sambusas get a Deep Southern twist at this Somali chai haven.

This seasonal soft serve shack has been doling out silky swirls since 1951.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.