One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.