Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.