An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.