Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

The history and future of cannabis.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.