This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.