The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Moonbows over Kentucky.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A science teacher's dream.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.