The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

The magic's in the hole!

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.