An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.