A science teacher's dream.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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 theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.