A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.