The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.