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

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."