This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

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

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.