Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

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