Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

Find your state fair food favorites all year long.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

A towering tribute to the Godfather of Soul.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An authentic recreation of a 19th-century museum for "working class folks."

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.