An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.