Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Featuring one of the most complete and original collections of Presidential memorabilia, this is the site of the last front porch presidential campaigns.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.