A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.