This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down in an act of vandalism.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.