A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.