A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.