Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.