An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Always a new use for this old building.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.