During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

The largest Canadian war cemetery in Italy commemorates those who died in one of the bloodiest battles of the Italian campaign during World War II.

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.

Where hikers on the Tecumseh Trail can exchange a dirty sock for a free geode.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.