An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The site of the largest mass execution in Rhode Island history, haunted by the ghosts of hanged pirates.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

In 1777, two men were killed after being struck by lightning at the same time.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.