The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.