A science teacher's dream.

A historic ballroom host to famous performers from the big band era to 1980s rock.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.