Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.