Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

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Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.