Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.