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

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.