Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

The world's largest single-aperture telescope resides in the Canary Islands.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.