An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Hang with reindeer at this 400-year-old Sámi market.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

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

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

The final resting place of a physician rescued during the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.