The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.