An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Because there's no place like home.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.