Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.