Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

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

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.