This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

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

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

"Only the devil could play golf here."