Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

Mexican food and folk art.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

One of the first sewers in the Americas.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.