This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

This Indiana walk of fame honors music legends with record-shaped plaques in the pavement.

World's largest Christmas store.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!