St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.