Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

This "sausage route" features gorgeous views and family-owned restaurants.

The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.