Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.