The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.