A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A local prank turned town icon.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.