Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This historic silent film-era theater is now a community playhouse with a chilling visitor.

After being abandoned for decades, Oklahoma’s first air-conditioned theatre was reborn in the new century.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

An ode to a chess-loving diplomat.

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.