This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.