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

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

Things roll uphill on this Mexican street that seems to defy gravity.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.