Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.