This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.