Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

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

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The magic's in the hole!

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.