This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

This third-generation shop has been doling out bowls of tilapia soup since 1977.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

The so-called "Richest Village In China" is either a model Communist town or a dystopian sham.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

Long tunnels run under the ancient chariot racing circuit to the tower.

It's believed emperor Hadrian himself funded this once architectural wonder.

Was the ravaging reptilian that terrorized this village a dragon, or an escapee from a London menagerie?

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

The only cave in Louisiana has played host to a state's-worth of clandestine activities.

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

It's said the devil used this mushroom rock as a table for a late-night meal.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.