They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.