The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.