Places Edited by icatsstaci

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A melting pot of Asian-Pacific art features one symbolic sculpture from each of 20 different nations.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

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

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.