This seasonal soft serve shack has been doling out silky swirls since 1951.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.