The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.