This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.