When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.