Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.