A curious museum of old video game consoles hidden in the back of a store.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

America's first public mental health facility.

This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.