This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

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

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.