When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Like Mars, but much closer.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.