A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

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

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.