A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.