Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.