A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.