The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.