The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Yo, Adrian!

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.