Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.