A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.