Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.