The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.