Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A white oak with property rights.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

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

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.