The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.