The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.