This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

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

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.