A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

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

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Haven for steampunks.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.