The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.