A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.