A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

This bridge over the River Cuale leads to a neighborhood that was once an escape for Hollywood's elite.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

Three historic trains run on a half-mile track that features a tunnel.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

How did the front of a supersonic jet make its way to a display case in a Kansas City yard?

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.