The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.

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

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.