A family recipe is just one of several touches that make this Hebrew headstone special.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Not actually a shop, but one fan's passionate show of support for a rival county's Gaelic football team.

The final resting place of a prominent Chippewa chief and several Native American children.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

This set of concrete chambers resonates according to different notes of octaves.

Outside the National Dinosaur Museum, dozens of dinosaur statues and sculptures claim the landscape.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

An unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.