This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

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

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.