This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.