The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

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

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The magic's in the hole!

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.