Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.