In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.