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

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

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

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.