Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.