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

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

The world's longest known cave system.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.