A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

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

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

Largest cave system in Africa.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.