Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The magic's in the hole!

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.