The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.