Decatur, Georgia
Waffle House Museum
A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.
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Decatur, Georgia
A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.
Easley, South Carolina
A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.
California City, California
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Rjukan, Norway
For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.
Quincy, Massachusetts
This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Montville, Connecticut
The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Groton, Connecticut
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
Stonington, Connecticut
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Waterford, Connecticut
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
Washington, D.C.
A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.
Columbia, Pennsylvania
North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
Milan, Italy
Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.
Milan, Italy
The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.