A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

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.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

One tree's homage to soles past and present.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

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

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This panoramic lift provides a futuristic ride up San Pedro Mountain.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.