A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This is one really big nut.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.