The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A white oak with property rights.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.