Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

World's largest Christmas store.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.