One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This was once the largest four-sided clock in the world (yes, even bigger than Big Ben).

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

Take in some Air Force history—and ogle some beautiful planes—at this little-known park near Myrtle Beach’s seashore.

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.