Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

A plaque bearing the names of those who dedicated themselves to protecting Budapest's Jewish population during World War II.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.