An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

This U.S. natural reserve is an ancient spiritual place and rock climber’s paradise.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A museum dedicated to the Georgia Peach, one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.