The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

Once the smallest park in the national system.

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

These boots are made for selfies.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.