Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."