The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.