Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

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

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

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.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

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

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

Once an early Christian burial site, it's believed the location was home to around 200 gravestones.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.