One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

A statue dedicated to the antihero of the Nibelung legend.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.