From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.