Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Russian history in San Francisco.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."