An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

The last water-powered mill in Oregon is open daily for free tours and has a surprising history.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!