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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.