Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This is one really big nut.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

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.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

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

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.