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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Outsider Art Community.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.