Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

A haven for wildlife amid the farmlands and development of the Willamette River Valley.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

Definitely not a clown bar.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A Bibliophile's Dream.