Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.