The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."