The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.