An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.