Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

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

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This Liberian resort offers comfort, ecofriendly hospitality, and a mission of sustainability.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

Worship at the altar of seafood at this fish-and-chip shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

An island off the coast of South Australia is home to the last purebred Ligurian bees.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A memorial marks the spot where a plane crash killed several United Nations members on a peace mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Enjoy fresh-baked bread and fish from a repurposed Portuguese fortress.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.