In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

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

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

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

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.