The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Fourteen sculptures showing the development of a fetus stand outside a hospital for women and children.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wonderous state park.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.