This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.