The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

These are probably the most beautifully-crafted toilets you've ever seen.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

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

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.