This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

This bridge was constructed from the remains of the first Ferris wheel.

A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

Population: 1.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.