This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.