San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

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

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.