Figueres, Spain
Dalí Theatre and Museum
Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.
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Figueres, Spain
Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.
Alameda, California
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
San Jose, California
For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.
Castroville, California
It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."
Pacifica, California
The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Los Angeles, California
This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Jamestown, New York
This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Sturbridge, Massachusetts
The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.
East Haddam, Connecticut
One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.
East Haddam, Connecticut
Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.
Essex, Connecticut
British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.
Los Angeles, California
This humble American Craftsman home is where the Disney brothers’ animation business took flight in 1923.
Los Angeles, California
The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Los Angeles, California
Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.
West Hollywood, California
An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.