From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A wonderful world of rare fruits and flowering trees grows in a small botanical park in Bradenton.

A man's home is his castle.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This sprawling stone mosaic on Berlin’s Museum Island transforms archaeological finds and local legends into a walkable work of art.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A time capsule of life in Southern Florida in the 1930s.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

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

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.