A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

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