Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.