A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.