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This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

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

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.