This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.