An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Tucked in the back of a flower shop, its collection details the fascinating history of the Netherlands's iconic symbol.

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

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.