A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

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

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.