This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".