During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.