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

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.