The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

Indiana's shrine to the sport that has become a hallmark of their culture.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

Low-frequency noise compared to an idling train can only be heard by some of this industrial town's residents.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.