The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

Florida's first suspension bridge.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.