A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!