Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.