Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.