The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

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

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

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.