What better place to take a seat?

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

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

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.