The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

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

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A science teacher's dream.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.