Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A vineyard devoted entirely to an unexplored flavor frontier.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.