A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.