This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.