When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A stone face watches over the river.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.