A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.