This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The world's longest known cave system.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.