Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

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

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

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

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.