A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

The drawbridge used in the filming of the movie 'Annie' has been in the open position as it was in the movie for decades.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

The world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces is a celebration of early American clockmaking.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

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

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

"Di amigo y entra" at this Argentinian Middle Earth-inspired pub.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."