A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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