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Prehistoric history as seen through the lens of an outsider artist.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.