This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.