The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

A wonderland of caves in eastern Iowa.

Architectural elements and building materials for this house were transported from Salisbury, England.

This hand-carved wooden carousel in the Story City North Park was built in 1913.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

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

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.