This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

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

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

An eccentric park and pool.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.