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A family-owned and operated cultural center, Native food stand, and store offering a taste of local Indigenous history.

A tiny historic cemetery located in the parking lot of a shopping complex.

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

Behind a row of ordinary D.C. houses hides a labyrinth of interconnected art galleries filled with unusual treasures and outsider art.

A Tennessee tourist attraction touted by some as a campy delight.

A monument to the man considered by some to be the greatest manager in baseball history.

Cape Breton’s oldest surviving Catholic church conceals a remarkable burial history and is said to be haunted by spirits from its past.

It is one of the few places in the world with a tar pit.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

An ode to this small town's big film history.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.