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The Real LegoLand.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Five restored historic road bridges in a park along the Kalamazoo River.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.