Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.