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The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."