A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

A unique structure located on the grounds of one of five grand palaces that were built by the Joseon dynasty.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.