The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

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

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.