Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A local prank turned town icon.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."