A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.