This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories