A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

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

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.