Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.