Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.