This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

The last water-powered beam pumping engine in Britain.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

This rock was donated to the museum by an inspired young visitor.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

This enormous steel tube is the biggest speaking horn in the world.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.