This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

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

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.