Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.