The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.