A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.