These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.