A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The world's largest rotating world.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

A sprawling museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.