In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.