An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

New York's oldest magic store.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.