Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

This rock was donated to the museum by an inspired young visitor.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.