This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.