Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

The site of a popular piano lounge owned by a former world champion boxer is now a place to rent a truck.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.