A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

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

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

World's largest Christmas store.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

Cell phone tower constructed entirely of wood.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

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

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.