Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

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

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

It might look like a doghouse, but this small structure was actually built to house a spirit from Maya mythology.

This now-abandoned shopping center in Playa del Carmen was built to resemble a medieval European castle.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

This small plaza encourages people diagnosed with cancer to never give up hope.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

He’s not from around here.