The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.