This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.