A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Feast on some of the finest momos in all of Queens.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

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

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.