Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.