More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.