This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.