Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.