This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Rescued, handpainted reproductions of iconic Francisco Goya paintings, now in a hotel.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.

Tour the oldest family-owned cigar-rolling factory in the country—then learn how to roll your own.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

The exit of the largest prisoner-of-war escape attempt on American soil during World War II.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.