Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.