Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

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

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.