A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.