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This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

New York's oldest magic store.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The ancient sauropod tracks found in this former quarry are some of the largest in the world.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.