The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The world's largest rotating world.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.