This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.