The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The world's longest known cave system.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.