Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.