The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

The world's first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.