Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

A dozen cast iron leopards stand guard along the length of Aberdeen's Union Bridge.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The unexpected mascot of Shetland's capital.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.