This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

This fortress-like monastery is covered with intricate frescoes.

A Romanian church built from one single oak.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

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

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.