A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

World's largest Christmas store.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The magic's in the hole!

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.