The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.