Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

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

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.