This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

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

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...