This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

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

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.