This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."